I want to put trophies by things in public:
* Best sidewalk crack
* Coolest sewer cap
* Prettiest view
The little things that you don't really notice. And things that are totally subjective, that is totally up to the viewer.

What other things in public can get a trophy for subjective reasons?

What does a sidewalk taste like? Would it be more acidic or basic?

After internet research I found: Wet cement is the number 1 cause of occupational skin disease in the United States. Wet cement burns with a pH of 12.0 to 13.0

But, i want to know the pH of cement when it dries.

How much thinking a person does throughout the day? It would be cool if we could measure how much thinking one does in different jobs.

lunch.com is available the deal of a price: $125,000.00. While I can't quite afford that much money, I am currently in negotiations with them. Here's an email that I sent to them:

I'll give you my lunch of a reuben on rye for lunch.com. Maybe we can negotiate and I'll throw in a pickle.

In just one morning, both the Hershey Kisses-mobile and the Peeps-mobile appeared across the street.

Earlier this year, I saw the Chuck Woolery mobile. Last year, I saw the Pepperidge Farm Goldfish mobile. So then it got me thinking about what other different product mobiles are out there.

* Oscar Meyer Weinermobile
* Hershey's Kissmobile [seen]
* Marshmellow Peepsmobile [seen]
* Pepperidge Farm Goldfish mobile [seen]
* Chuck Woolery mobile [seen]
* Meow Mixmobile
* Spammobile
I wonder what other product mobiles are out there (or should be out there).

I'm redesigning the spudart.org website, and I'd love to get feedback from my readers about possible designs.

Here is Option B (the home page).

About the redesign
The redesign will incorporate alot of backend database features
* Every item on the spudart.org site can have comments
* Users can log into the site for member features
* When viewing a particular item, you can see other items that are similiar.
* The recent works on the homepage will update automatically with new items.
* much much more

Color
I'm concerned that the background tan color might look a bit red on some screens. On my CRT at home and at work, it looks tan. But on my laptop it looks kinda salmon. I might just kill the tan color and make it white. But I do like how the colored background makes the square icons pop more.

Boring-ness
This design is just too boring. The layout is alright, but it needs more piz-zazz.

Expanding page
The pages are being designed so the entire page expands with how big you have your browser window. The middle column is the one that expands bigger or smaller. I have an earlier design, Option A, which is an interesting layout, but it doesn't expand.

Your comments are encouraged and appreciated. Are there any sites out there that you think would look really good for spudart.org?

Here's an email I sent today to Griffin Armored Vehicles:

Hello, I am interested in the Armored "B" Body Money Transport Vehicle. How much do one of these cost?

It has all the features I desire:
1) They are the epitomy of safety
2) Representative of extreme wealth and money
3) It's got that cool boxy shape like the Toyota Scion

Plus it would be the coolest SUV on my block. Nobody I know has one yet. Actually, it would create a whole line of SUV called the SAV, the Sports Armored Vehicle. SAV has all the marketing implications of the word "save"... Save your life, Save your money up for this beast, Save the planet.

Sincerely,
An interested SAV customer.

When walking indoors, look up at the ceiling while walking and do not look down. It's quite an odd experience, espicially when you turn around alot of corners.

Upon opening a Hershey's cookies'n'cream, you will see this unappetizing "chocolate cookie bits in 'white' chocolate." Looks like something else to me.

Autumn has summer in the corner of the ring and is about to peform a suplex-body-slam-double-digit-powerbomb on autumn.

hmm, it seems like autumn always beats summer.
And winter always beats autumn.
And spring always beats winter.
And summer always beats spring.

It's kinda like if you add dynamite to the rock-paper-scissors.
You'd end up in an infinite loop of mathematics.

Since June of last year, I've been meaning to experiment with rubbings in my art.

After running off a few in the tribune tower lobby today, it seems like they need something more. Maybe...
* make a collage by making rubbings of several things on one sheet, or...
* incorporating the rubbings into other mediums, or...
* what else?

There's just some sort of spark of an idea waiting for rubbings. I really like the ideas lying underneath a rubbing... being there having an intimate relationship with an object/location, a tactile replica of something... there's something more to explore here. Suggestions/ideas are welcome.

There was a group of 200 or so soldiers marching in formation on Pioneer Court outside my window at work in the Tribune Tower in Chicago just 15 minutes ago. Half the soldiers, in blue were soldiers who were on their 5th week of initiation into the Chief rank. The other half where soliders in tan uniforms that were slacking around not in formation. The tan ones were already in Chief or higher rankings. Every year they do this Pride Day in Chicago to give appreciation to the new recruits. And according to one of the soldiers in tan, "next week is the final initiation, which we'll have A LOT of fun with."

The event on their t-shirts said: U.S. Navy Chief Pride Day 2003.

The photo here has them gathered around the September 11 artifact on the Tribune Tower. And marching across Michigan Ave toward the Wrigley Building. More higer-resolution photos are available, ask me about it at: matt@spudart.org

The body mass index is messed up. I'm 5'11" 180 pounds, putting me right on the border of being overweight with an index of 25. I know that I'm totally not overweight. Maybe it's all the brains in my head tipping the scale. ;-) Check out your body mass index.

I'm happy to announce that now when you add a comment and click the "Notify me when someone replies to this post" box, the notification emails you recieve will now have the body of the comment. Hooray! It was a tough hack to add to the program, but it is well worth it.

Before, if there were a bunch of replies to one post, you'd get all these emails that look the same. Now you can actually read the comment right in your email and click the link to post a reply.

They would have more success with the 8-glasses-of-water-a-day thing if they said you should drink 64 ounces of water a day.
* Most people don't know how much a "glass" is.
* Eight glasses just sounds ridiculously crazy, and most people just dismiss it as some uppity-ups going extreme with their reasoning.

After getting very little sleep, gravity feels really heavy on me this morning. Here's a theory: As we sleep, our bodies release gravity. We almost always sleep horizontal, because it enables us to have more surface area to release gravity from our bodies.

here is a hilarious animated gif of four dancers, what appears to be Voltron, a kung fu dude, a ballerina and Spider-Man. Whadda group. And look at those moves!

Any idea on what brought these characters together?

Many people complain that flash mobs are lame, because it's a group of people that "can't think for themselves." Actually, in the contrary, flash mobs are bringing back something that has been missing more and more in American society... the community. Our current age is so focused on the individual, it's refreshing to hear of people being social and in groups.

When I get old, if I have to go to a retirement home, i'm gonna try to think of it like going to college where you have a community there. (I dunno, just a thought. I really don't know much about retirement homes)